Articles for tag: Citing Sources, Rough Draft

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Eight Steps to Writing a Great Term Paper Fast

With school deadlines fast approaching, many college students find themselves stressed to the limit with a barrage of papers to finish in a matter of days. Although there are always those students who seem to be able to pump out paper after paper with seemingly no problem, most will find themselves hard-pressed to write something ...

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APA Citing with Microsoft Word

Proper APA citing is a must when writing academic and heavily researched documents. Not only is it important to provide your readers with a comprehensive list of the sources you’ve cited and referenced as you wrote the paper, it’s also important for your APA bibliography to conform to established standards. Fortunately, Microsoft Word automates much ...

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Questia: The World’s Largest Online Library

Questia.com bills itself as the world’s largest online library. That may very well be true, but then again at the moment it’s not saying a whole lot. Provided Google can deal with the multiple lawsuits that are currently standing as a huge obstacle to its plans to digitize millions of books, Questia’s library may one ...

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Top 5 Online Writing Tools

If you are serious about your writing, you will want to be serious about not plagiarizing, citing sources, and spelling. There are tools online that can help with these things and more. Why not use these tools to your advantage? Paper Rater Paper Rater is free, which makes it a great online writing tool. In ...

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10 Tips for Choosing Good Sources for Your Research Paper

Completing an in-depth research paper at both the high school and college levels can be a stressful, daunting test. Here are 10 tips for choosing good sources for your research paper. School research tip #1 – Choose a variety of mediums for your sources; a mixture of Internet research, professional journals, books, and newspaper articles ...

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Comparing Two Biographies of Ataturk

The writing of biographies of the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, requires the writer to sort through stories of the great leader and attempt to determine what is fact and what is legend. Attempts to understand Atatürk’s early life is especially hard to for scholars, as they must rely on oral histories that ...

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APA Vs. MLA – A Writer’s Guide to the Most Used Styles for Papers

MLA stands for Modern Language Association. APA stands for American Psychological Association. Both of these organizations have developed a style to aid in the formation of papers. Both styles provide guidelines for the mechanics of writing, including aspects of punctuation, quotation, and the documentation of sources. A person’s profession or major affects the style used. ...